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Friday Fun Link – Some Useful COVID-19 Resources & Trackers

These are ordered roughly in the order that I find them useful but I’d encourage anyone reading this to open them all and find which ones you prefer for yourself. Also, feel free to post a comment if there are sites I haven’t listed that you prefer. COVID-19 Canada Tracker – designed by a […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Happier Times at the Hospital (May 2007)

It’s amazing how the hospital can be both the location for some of the happiest moments of people’s lives (births of children, news about diseases being beaten and bones being healed) and some of the worst (a loved one doesn’t make it after an accident, grandma’s last breaths on the palliative care ward, the diagnosis […]

¶ Posted 26 March 2020 § Family § Jobs § MemoryLane § Pace § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, health, science

Saturday Snap – Going (Mini) Viral Online in the Age of Pandemic

From working on the Ryan Meili leadership campaigns, mostly in the area of social media plus my own personal interest in the topic, I know some of the “rules” about what makes tweets/Facebook posts successful. But ultimately, human nature is a funny thing and no one can truly predict what will make a tweet go […]

¶ Posted 21 March 2020 § Humour § Internet § Jobs § Library § News § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, twitter

Spreading Germs, Stopping Handshakes & Increasing Handwashing: The Best Coronavirus Video I’ve Seen

¶ Posted 18 March 2020 § Jobs § Meme § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, health

Friday Fun Link – British vs. Canadian English

I still tell the story of the woman I traveled to England with for a University exchange in 1995 meeting a group of people in a pub and saying she hadn’t changed her pants in days. Turns out trousers are pants in England and pants are underwear! 🙂

¶ Posted 06 March 2020 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § Travel § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, travel

Why Does The “Bernie Bro” Myth Persist?

Because the media isn’t doing their job?

¶ Posted 11 February 2020 § Internet § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: twitter

Music Monday – “It’s over/You don’t need to tell me/I hope you’re with someone who makes you feel/Safe in your sleep, being tonight/I won’t kill myself trying to stay in your life/I’ve got no distance left to run.”

“No Distance Left To Run” – Blur

¶ Posted 10 February 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § UK ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “We’re all gonna die someday lord/We’re all gonna die someday Mama’s on pills daddy’s over the hill/But we’re all gonna die someday”

“We’re All Gonna Die Someday” – Kasey Chambers

¶ Posted 03 February 2020 § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

Great Article (But I Still Wish We Had A Film Industry in Saskatchewan!)

Layton Burton was one of the few who didn’t have to leave the province when the government cut the Film Tax Credit but he did have to go back to school in his 50’s and completely reinvent himself.